Remembering Tsunami 2004: Diary of a disaster psychiatrist


Words of advice: : Dr Andrew Mohanraj counselling a victim of the tsunami in Banda Aceh in 2005. — Photos: Dr Andrew Mohanraj

The story of Aceh’s resilient people who overcame the odds in their journey to recovery.

When I arrived in Aceh, health workers were placed in temporary housing with great challenges that we in Malaysia are not used to. The preoccupation with finding clean water to bathe or the fear of the mild daily aftershocks paled into insignificance when we heard the survivors’ tragic stories.

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